Wrocławski ruch wydawniczy lat 1945–1953

The years 1945–1953 in Wrocław were a time of reconstruction of the city and creating an entirely new community, its cultural, educational and scientific life. One of the many problems of everyday life for new residents was a lack of printed texts in Polish. Beside creation of libraries and lending libraries, a startup of publishing movement was very important. It was started by about 50 institutions – professional publishing houses, bookshops, but also societies, educational institutions, offices, political parties, and finally the authors themselves or their families. The most important role among them was played by private institutions.Lata 1945–1953 we Wrocławiu to czas odbudowy miasta i tworzenia zupełnie nowej społeczności, jej życia kulturalnego, oświatowego i naukowego. Jednym z wielu problemów życia codziennego nowych mieszkańców był brak polskiego słowa drukowanego. Obok powstawania bibliotek i wypożyczalni, duże znaczenie dla zaspokojenia tych potrzeb miało uruchomienie działalności wydawniczej. Podjęło ją około 50 instytucji – profesjonalne oficyny, księgarnie, ale także towarzystwa, instytucje naukowe, urzędy, partie polityczne, czy wreszcie sami autorzy lub ich rodziny. Najważniejszą wśród nich rolę odegrały instytucje prywatne

Soft ranking in clustering

Due to the diffusion of large-dimensional data sets (e.g., in DNA microarray or document organization and retrieval applications), there is a growing interest in clustering methods based on a proximity matrix. These have the advantage of being based on a data structure whose size only depends on cardinality, not dimensionality. In this paper, we propose a clustering technique based on fuzzy ranks. The use of ranks helps to overcome several issues of large-dimensional data sets, whereas the fuzzy formulation is useful in encoding the information contained in the smallest entries of the proximity matrix. Comparative experiments are presented, using several standard hierarchical clustering techniques as a reference

Supervised Classification: Quite a Brief Overview

The original problem of supervised classification considers the task of automatically assigning objects to their respective classes on the basis of numerical measurements derived from these objects. Classifiers are the tools that implement the actual functional mapping from these measurements---also called features or inputs---to the so-called class label---or output. The fields of pattern recognition and machine learning study ways of constructing such classifiers. The main idea behind supervised methods is that of learning from examples: given a number of example input-output relations, to what extent can the general mapping be learned that takes any new and unseen feature vector to its correct class? This chapter provides a basic introduction to the underlying ideas of how to come to a supervised classification problem. In addition, it provides an overview of some specific classification techniques, delves into the issues of object representation and classifier evaluation, and (very) briefly covers some variations on the basic supervised classification task that may also be of interest to the practitioner

Instance selection of linear complexity for big data

Over recent decades, database sizes have grown considerably. Larger sizes present new challenges, because machine learning algorithms are not prepared to process such large volumes of information. Instance selection methods can alleviate this problem when the size of the data set is medium to large. However, even these methods face similar problems with very large-to-massive data sets. In this paper, two new algorithms with linear complexity for instance selection purposes are presented. Both algorithms use locality-sensitive hashing to find similarities between instances. While the complexity of conventional methods (usually quadratic, O(n2), or log-linear, O(nlogn)) means that they are unable to process large-sized data sets, the new proposal shows competitive results in terms of accuracy. Even more remarkably, it shortens execution time, as the proposal manages to reduce complexity and make it linear with respect to the data set size. The new proposal has been compared with some of the best known instance selection methods for testing and has also been evaluated on large data sets (up to a million instances).Supported by the Research Projects TIN 2011-24046 and TIN 2015-67534-P from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness

Julius Zeyer’s “Rokoko” in Maryla Wolska’s Translation: The Strategies of Writer’s Artistic Self-creation in the Light of a Text Selected for Translation

Przedmiotem artykułu jest polskie tłumaczenie Rokoka Juliusa Zeyera, które w 1910 r. ogłosiła Maryla Wolska na łamach współredagowanego przez siebie pisma „Lamus” (Lwów 1908−1913). Pokazano relację między wyborem translatorskim pisarki a jej autokreacją artystyczną na lwowskiej scenie literackiej. W tym celu szkicowo omówiono kontakty Wolskiej ze środowiskiem kulturalnym miasta po rozpadzie skupionej wokół niej grupy Płanetnicy, a także przemiany jej warsztatu twórczego oraz rozumienie swojej roli jako tłumaczki. Na tak zarysowanym tle podjęto próbę odpowiedzi na pytanie, dlaczego ten właśnie tekst Zeyera okazał się dla pisarki interesujący i z którymi z jej ówczesnych rozterek korespondował.This article investigates the Polish translation of Julius Zeyer’s Rokoko (“Rococo”) published in 1910 by MarylaWolska in Lamus (“Lamus”) (Lviv 1908−1913), a journal she co-edited. This is the attempt to indicate the relationship between the writer’s translation choices and her artistic self-creation on the Lviv literary map, and to this end the author briefly describes Wolska’s contacts with the city’s cultural milieu in the wake of the disintegration of her artistic group “Płanetnicy” (The Rainmakers). Also, the author examines the transformations of Wolska’s literary craftsmanship and her approach to her role as a translator. Considering these themes will allow to inquire into the rationale behind Wolska’s choice to translate this particular literary work: Zeyer’s Rokoko

The impact of retinal size on mental transformations in imagery: Rotation, synthesis, combination

The following paper is an answer to a research question regarding the impact of retinal size (understood as the tangent of the object’s physical size and its distance from the subject) on mental transformations. A total of 182 people took part in three designed experiments, which included three types of operations: 1) synthesis as an operation changing the structure of the object; 2) rotation as an operation preserving the structure of the object; and 3) a combination of the two. The impact of retinal size on the course of rotation was confirmed. Furthermore, it turned out that this impact significantly influenced the effectiveness of all three mental operations. A tendency regarding the impact of physical size on synthesis was demonstrated (participants performed mental transformations in the most optimal way on 15 cm (5.9 in) objects – such that can be held in a hand in the real world). It was noticeable that the optimal distance to the object, preferred by participants, was 30 cm (11.8 in). In the real world, such a distance enables them to transform objects freely within arm’s reach. The obtained results support the analogousness of the mental world to the world in which we live

THE OBITUARIES OF KORNEL UJEJSKI CONSIDERED IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CHANGING FORM OF POLISH JOURNAL OBITUARY AT THE TURN OF THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES. A CONTRIBUTION TO STUDIES

This article discusses ways of constructing the 19th century Polish journal obituary through a selection of obituaries of Kornel Ujejski from the years 1897-1898. One of the most important aspects of this analysis is the relationship between the conventional and the particular in the sections of these obituaries which consider the reception of Ujejski’s works. The author also considers the problem of the connections between the socially determined poetics of the obituary, the history of literature and literary criticism, which acquires particular importance in the context of obituaries of writers and also in the spe-cific form of 19th century obituary known as “literary obituary”. This paper shows how the obituary is a particularly useful genre in the research of literary reception

History of the Ossolinski National Institut told through the biographies of its employees

200 years of history of the Ossolinski National Institut (founded in 1817) is also extremely interesting stories of his many employees, including prominent librarians and researchers. Performed in the article detailed review of current literature on the staff of the Institut shaw that there is no current studies on even the most eminent people, including the founder of the Institute, count Józef Maksymilian Ossoliński. The author points out, at the same time, the most urgent needs for biographical studies on the staff of the Ossolinski National Institut.Udostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój; nr umowy: POWER.03.05.00-00-Z092/17-00

Image of a woman in Bulgarian phraseology and dating ads

Głównym celem pracy jest rekonstrukcja językowego obrazu kobiety w bułgarskiej frazeologii i w ogłoszeniach zamieszczanych na portalach randkowych i matrymonialnych. Podjęta została także próba uchwycenia, w jakim stopniu tradycyjny stereotyp jest w tym obrazie utrwalony i widoczny. Przywołano też kwestie językoznawcze, które odnoszą się do badań i ustaleń dotyczących językowego obrazu świata oraz stereotypu płci. Zaprezentowano rekonstrukcję stereotypu kobiet, który został zawarty w paremiach bułgarskich, na tle wyników badań przeprowadzonych w innych językach oraz przedstawiono podobieństwa i różnice występujące nich. Dołączono także prace przedstawiające wyniki badań asocjacyjnych, w których jest widoczny współczesny sposób widzenia kobiet wraz z analizą obrazu kobiet w świecie kultury.The aim of the master's thesis is to reconstruct the linguistic image of a woman in Bulgarian phraseology and in advertisements posted on dating and matrimonial websites. An attempt was also made to capture how much the traditional stereotype is perpetuated and visible in this picture. Linguistic issues related to the study of the linguistic image of the world and the gender stereotype were discussed. The stereotype of women, which is contained in Bulgarian paremiology, was also highlighted. It was presented against the background of the results of research conducted in other languages, the similarities and differences between them were shown. Works presents the results of associative research, which provide a modern way of seeing women, along with an analysis of the image of women in culture, are also analyzed